New station near Greenview

[Steve Appleton]

26 November 2011. Work proceeds on the project to double the track east of Eerste Fabrieke and provide better station facilities. Here a new station and depot is being constructed at Greenview. The junction track between the Sentrarand line south and the Pretoria line west has been lifted. It appears that it is being diverted and rerouted through this new complex.
The track-laying of the parallel track is progressing but not yet completed and although the masts are up and insulators in place, no wires are up yet either. No signals are working through this section. All signal and points installations are thoughly vandalised with point motors stolen all the way through to Panpoort, reducing the entire length to an effective "single line". Pilots and/or ticket working are in place between Eerste Fabrieke to Pienaarspoort stations.
A friendly Metro TCO was on station at EF to hand us the ticket and authorities on the outbound trip keeping the station stop time down to just a few minutes.
Photo: Steve G Appleton.

[Chris Janisch]

Hard to believe doubleheaded 15CAs used to come crashing through here day and night!